Well…woke up this morning and took a look at my phone and thought I saw 5:14 but then my coffee alarm clock said it had to be after 6 since I could smell the new coffee brewing…so I’m up and here I am…again…had dreams last night about Steely Dan concerts and people that I met before but didn’t know where I met them…it was one of those things where you see someone and you know them but you don’t know where from…kinda weird….it was my 9th day of being good and it is starting to be a habit and I am curious how long this is going to last….one place that it has really affected is the bike ride every morning…it is still a bit of a struggle to force myself to get on the bike but once on it the rides have been much easier and more fun…I think part of that is that I have the plans for working on the house to think about while I’m on it and that is a good distraction…I did get the salt I needed to do the walks yesterday and they are finally clear….and the chicken I got from Aldi’s is really good after I marinated it in balsamic vinegar, soy sauce, worst sauce, garlic and onion powder along with some Italian seasoning….and the leg quarters are pretty big so one makes a meal and I have another one for later today….if I had room in my freezer, I’d run out and get another 10 pounds at 49 cents a pound to stock the freezer for a month…not much to do today…Tom is coming out in the afternoon so I can meet his new dog and hang out a while…and I have to remember to send him home with some of the latest batch of ham soup that I made a couple of  weeks ago…and I have laundry and cleaning this place up a bit to do before then…it is nice to finally be making some progress on the house and to have a vision of what I want it to look like when I’m done…going to go out tomorrow to get the first of the grey paints so I can start painting the inside of the cupboards…it is going to be a subtle grey that I think will look cool…more later…